02/04/20 26-23mar2020
Study suggests daily meditation slows brain aging by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress
Researchers scanned [Budhist Monk] Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's brain
via an MRI machine four times over the past 14 years.
Over the same period, the researchers also obtained MRI brain scans of a control group consisting of 105 other adults from the local area who were near in age to Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.
The researchers then submitted all of the brain scans to an AI system called the Brain Age Gap Estimation (BrainAge) framework. It had been taught to make
educated guesses of a person's age by looking at brain scans.
It does its work by noting the structure of gray matter in the brain, which lessens in mass as a person ages.
The BrainAge system estimated Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's age to be 33 [while he actual age was 41];
others in the control group fell into what the team described as the "typical aging band."
The researchers interpreted this result as evidence of his brain aging at a slower rate than the control group.
The researchers note that the BrainAge system did find some parts of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's brain that had aged in ways similar to the control group, suggesting that
brain aging differences between individuals may be due to coordinated changes throughout a person's gray matter.
They also noted that they had found evidence showing that Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's brain
had matured earlier
than the brains of the others in the control group.
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